After chatting a while longer, everyone prepared to rest. It was only just past midnight, and the train would not depart until nine in the morning. They ought to get as much sleep as they could.
After all, riding a steam train took a surprising amount of energy. Even a first-class compartment was not particularly comfortable...
Only Fors looked at the hot spring with regret. No matter how thoroughly the Magic Mirror had "eaten" the corpses, plenty of blood had still flowed into the water. At the very least, no one would be bathing there tonight.
Seeing this, Abner had an idea and called them back.
Under the puzzled gazes of the three women and one lion, he used his spirituality to communicate with the Golden Glasses on his nose, then brought them all into Alvin Abraham's Quiz Maze.
The official Beyonders might not notice anything amiss at the Words of Tenderness hotel for a while, but some of the Devils who had escaped could return. This place was no longer suitable for rest.
This time, Abner did not appear in the classroom where the questions were answered, but inside a luxurious villa.
The villa had lavish decor, numerous rooms, and even its own hot spring, making up for Fors and the others' disappointment.
This was one of the privileges of Abner's level-four access: he could rent a "mansion" inside the Quiz Maze for fifty gold pounds a day...
The price was outrageous, but Abner did not care. The Quiz Maze still owed him more than six hundred thousand gold pounds. Even interest of one ten-thousandth per day came to over sixty pounds, so the rent would not even touch the principal.
Meanwhile, Fors, Helene, and Fanny saw that Abner had no intention of explaining. Sensibly, they asked no questions.